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PROF. MERRY. K. PSEMESTER:05
DEPARTMENT:ITE-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
SUBJECT CODE:151602
Lesson # 1
Introduction to E-Commerce & Technology Infrastructure
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Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn about:
• What electronic commerce is and how it is experiencing a second wave of growth with a new focus on profitability
• The international nature of electronic commerce and the challenges that arise in engaging in electronic commerce on a global scale
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Electronic Commerce: The Second Wave
• Electronic commerce (e-commerce)
Businesses trading with other businesses and internal processes
• Electronic business (e-business)
Term used interchangeably with e-commerce
The transformation of key business processes through the use of Internet technologies
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Categories of E-Commerce
• Five general e-commerce categories: Business-to-consumer Business-to-business Business processes Consumer-to-consumer Business-to-government
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Categories of E-Commerce
• Transaction An exchange of value such as purchase, sell
• Business processes The group of logical, related, and sequential activities and
transactions in which businesses engage Ex. Transferring funds, shipping goods, invoices
• Telecommuting or telework Employees log in to company computers through the
Internet instead of traveling to the office
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The Development and Growth of E-Commerce
• Electronic funds transfers (EFTs) Also called wire transfers Electronic transmissions of account exchange information
over private communications networks
• Electronic data interchange (EDI) Transmitting computer-readable data in a standard
format to another business Reduce errors, no need to reenter data
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The Development and Growth of E-Commerce (continued)• Trading partners
Businesses that engage in EDI with each other
• Value-added network (VAN) Independent firm that offers connection and transaction-
forwarding services to buyers and sellers engaged in EDI
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The Second Wave of Electronic Commerce
• Defining characteristics of the first wave: Dominant influence of U.S. businesses
Extensive use of the English language
Many new companies started with outside investor money
Unstructured use of e-mail
Over-reliance on advertising as a revenue source
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The Second Wave of E-Commerce (continued)
• Second wave: Global enterprises in many countries are participating in
electronic commerce Established companies fund electronic commerce
initiatives with their own capital Customized e-mail strategies are now integral to
customer contact
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Business Models, Revenue Models, and Business Processes
• Business model A set of processes that combine to yield a profit
• Revenue model A specific collection of business processes used to:
Identify customers Market to those customers Generate sales to those customers
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Business Processes
• Addition to Revenue Model, rest of operations as specific business processes.
Managing Transportation, training employes
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Role of Merchandising
• Merchandising Convenience consumers to buy Combination of store design, layout, and product display
knowledge Identify customer needs
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Product/Process Suitability to Electronic Commerce
• Commodity item Hard to distinguish from the same products or services
provided by other sellers Features have become standardized and well known A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but
which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.
Examples are petroleum, notebook paper, milk, copper etc.
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Product/Process Suitability to Electronic Commerce (continued)• Shipping profile
Collection of attributes that affect how easily a product can be packaged and delivered
• High value-to-weight ratio
Can make overall shipping cost a small fraction of the selling price, Ex. Airline Ticket
Ex. Kodak camera vs. Real Estate
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Advantages of Electronic Commerce
• Electronic commerce can increase sales and decrease costs
• If advertising is done well on the Web, it can get a firm’s promotional message out to potential customers in every country
• Using e-commerce sales support and order-taking processes, a business can: Reduce costs of handling sales inquiries Provide price quotes
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Advantages of Electronic Commerce (continued)
• It increases purchasing opportunities for buyers• Negotiating price and delivery terms is easier• Easier to audit/monitor payments• Protection against fraud and theft losses
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Disadvantages of Electronic Commerce
• Perishable grocery products are much harder to sell online
• It is difficult to: Calculate return on investment Integrate existing databases and transaction-processing
software into software that enables e-commerce
• Cultural and legal obstacles also exist
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Identifying Electronic Commerce Opportunities
• Firm Multiple business units owned by a common set of
shareholders• Industry
Multiple firms that sell similar products to similar customers
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Strategic Business Unit Value Chains
• Value chain A way of organizing the activities that each strategic
business unit undertakes• Primary activities include:
Designing, producing, promoting, marketing, delivering, and supporting the products or services it sells
• Supporting activities include: Human resource management and purchasing
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Prof. Ash E-Commerce & E-Business - 151602
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Industry Value Chains
• Importance of strategic business unit fits within its industry
• Value system
Larger stream of activities into which a particular business unit’s value chain is embedded
Also referred to as industry value chain
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SWOT Analysis: Evaluating Business Unit Opportunities
• In SWOT analysis:
An analyst first looks into the business unit to identify its strengths and weaknesses
The analyst then reviews the operating environment and identifies opportunities and threats
Ex. Dell Computers
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Language Issues
• To do business effectively in other cultures a business must adapt to those cultures
• Researchers have found that customers are more likely to buy products and services from Web sites in their own language
• “think globally, act locally”
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Culture Issues
• An important element of business trust is anticipating how the other party to a transaction will act in specific circumstances
• Culture: Combination of language and customs
Varies across national boundaries
Varies across regions within nations
Significance of colors-China vs. US
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Infrastructure Issues
• Internet infrastructure includes: Computers and software connected to the Internet Communications networks over which message packets
travel• Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development’s (OECD) Statements on Information and Communications Policy deal with telecommunications infrastructure development issues
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Infrastructure Issues (continued)
• Flat-rate access system Consumer or business pays one monthly fee for unlimited
telephone line usage Contributed to rapid rise of U.S. electronic commerce
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Growth of the Internet
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Growth of the Internet (cont’d.)
• Internet hosts: directly connected computers• Internet growth
Technological and social accomplishment Used by millions of people Thousands of different software packages Billions of dollars change hands yearly Led to World Wide Web
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Internet Protocols
• Protocol: collection of network data rules Includes transmission rules Computers must use same protocol
• ARPANET: Network Control Protocol (NCP)• Proprietary architecture (closed architecture)
Manufacturer creates own protocol• Open architecture (Internet core)
Uses common protocol Four key message-handling rules Contributed to the Internet’s success
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TCP/IP
• Internet protocols Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Controls message or file disassembly into packets before Internet transmission
Controls packet reassembly into original formats at destinations
Internet Protocol (IP) Specifies addressing details for each packet Labels packet with origination and destination addresses
• TCP/IP refers to both protocols Used today (replaced ARPANET NCP)
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Domain Names
• Dotted decimal notation difficult to remember• Domain names
Sets of words assigned to specific IP addresses Example: www.sandiego.edu
Contains three parts separated by periods Top-level domain (TLD): rightmost part Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) Sponsored top-level domains (sTLD)
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Responsibility: managing non-sTLD
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Commonly used domain names
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Electronic Mail Protocols
• Electronic mail (e-mail) Formatted according to common set of rules Client/server structure
• E-mail server Computer devoted to e-mail handling Stores, forwards e-mail messages
• E-mail client software Reads and sends e-mail Communicates with e-mail server software
• Standardization and rules very important
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Electronic Mail Protocols (cont’d.)
• Two common protocols Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Specifies mail message format Describes mail administration e-mail server Describes mail transmission on the Internet
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Electronic Mail Protocols (cont’d.)
Post Office Protocol (POP) An application-layer Internet standard protocol used by
local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection
Sends mail to user’s computer, deletes from server Sends mail to user’s computer, does not delete Asks if new mail arrived
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Internet2 and the Semantic Web
• Internet2 a dynamic, innovative and cost-effective hybrid optical
and packet network Replacement for original ARPANET laboratory Experimental networking technologies test bed High end of the bandwidth spectrum (10 Gbps) Used by universities, medical schools, CERN Focus
Mainly technology development Bandwidth-intensive requirements
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Internet2 and the Semantic Web • Semantic Web project (next-generation Web)
Goal: blending technologies and information into a next-generation Web Have words on Web pages tagged (using XML) with their
meanings machine-readable metadata about pages and how they are
related to each other Uses software agents (intelligent programs)
Read XML tags, determine meaning of words in their contexts
Resource description framework (RDF) Set of XML syntax standards
Development of Semantic Web will take many years
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Summary• Commerce
Negotiated exchange of goods or services• Electronic commerce
Application of new technologies to conduct business more effectively
• First wave of electronic commerce Ended in 2000
• Second wave of electronic commerce New approaches to integrating Internet technologies into
business processes
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